Why Is My Master Like This?

[Main story complete. My other novel, "Please, I'm a Fox Spirit!", is next door. If you like it, please add it to your reading list too, mwah~]

Zhu Tan thought she was pretty lucky.

When an immortal master came to her village to recruit disciples, she was the only one with talent, and the Yunxiao Sect took her in as a disciple.

A few years later, Venerable Huailing recruited a sword attendant disciple. She had average qualifications, but the Venerable took a liking to her and made her his only disciple.

Venerable Huailing was noble and pure, aloof and proud, someone to admire from afar.

He treated Zhu Tan well, but he also didn't.

He treated her badly because he never guided her in cultivation. After bringing her into his sect, he simply tossed her a manual and told her to ask the sect's senior disciple if she had questions.

He treated her well because every month he gave Zhu Tan a generous supply of top-grade spirit pills and spirit stones, far beyond what the sect normally provided.

Although Zhu Tan was Venerable Huailing's sword attendant disciple, the two of them barely spoke in private.

So Zhu Tan started slacking off.

But gradually, she noticed the Venerable had changed in some ways

He began to care about her. When she got hurt, he was even more anxious than she was. Not only did he personally guide her cultivation, he even learned how to cook just because she hadn't reached the fasting stage yet...

Zhu Tan began to fall for this side of the Venerable.

Worse, after the Venerable was injured one time, Zhu Tan accidentally (beep, ) him while helping change his dressing.

Afterward, Zhu Tan bought a standing-room ticket and left Yunxiao Sect overnight, taking the Venerable's spirit pet with her for good measure.

After descending the mountain, Zhu Tan used Face-Changing Pills to take on countless different appearances, carefully avoiding the people from the immortal sects.

But no matter how well she hid, the Venerable always found her in the end.

_(:з"∠)_

Zhu Tan couldn't make head or tail of it.

It wasn't until later, when Zhu Tan learned the Venerable's true identity, that she finally understood

Demons recognized people by their scent, so no matter what she looked like, he could identify her at a glance.

Zhu Tan: "..."

I'm done.

Note: The original game's setting in this story was inspired by commercially available PC games.

Couple:

A fake aloof Venerable who secretly lets loose and tries to seduce the heroine

Vs

A sweet, silly little disciple who is clearly being seduced but thinks she's the one giving in to lust, and just wants to earn money and retire

Cultivation levels: Qi Refining, Foundation Building, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Spirit Transformation, Body Integration, Great Ascension, Tribulation Transcendence

Content warnings:

1: Teacher-disciple romance.

2: A silly, sweet romance wearing a xianxia costume. Don't take it too seriously.

3: The male lead is a snake demon. He has everything you can imagine.

4: Once the male lead falls in love, he'll become completely lovesick, the kind who'd dig wild vegetables for eighteen years. The heroine has intermittent bursts of ambition, but is otherwise content to coast through life. She's a total slacker, so don't expect her to slaughter her way through the world.

5: The male lead has no sense of morality and doesn't mind a teacher-disciple romance.

Note added 2022/5/24

My next novel will be "Please, I'm a Fox Spirit!"

Fu Yu was of noble birth, the daughter of the Fox King in one of the Immortal Realm's thirty-six territories. She had been doted on since childhood.

At a grand banquet beside the Jade Pool, Fu Yu fell in love at first sight with Immortal Lord Yuyuan and tried every way she could to win his favor.

Her maid tried to console her and tell her to give up. Immortal Lord Yuyuan was snow atop Kunlun Mountain and a lotus in the Ninth Heaven, someone to admire from afar but never approach. For years, all the ladies who had fallen for him had returned defeated.

Fu Yu refused to believe it and proudly puffed out her chest.

Please, I'm a fox spirit! There's no one I can't flirt with.

To get close to Immortal Lord Yuyuan, Fu Yu sent him flowers, spirit pets, and all kinds of little trinkets. She even threw away her dignity and went to his cave abode to serve as a maid. She tried every method she could think of, but none of it moved the Immortal Lord.

She even suffered a serious injury for his sake.

On the day she was hurt, Fu Yu stubbornly refused to take her medicine, just waiting for Immortal Lord Yuyuan to come see her.

But after waiting day and night, he never came. Instead, she received a jade slip sent by one of his people.

His voice came through the jade slip, as cold as ever. "Stop indulging in fantasies about me. Don't come to my cave abode again. I hope you'll conduct yourself properly."

Fu Yu's proud heart was shattered to pieces.

After hitting a wall again and again, Fu Yu decided to give up on Immortal Lord Yuyuan.

There were so many handsome men in the world. Why be hung up on just one?

Just as Fu Yu was preparing to descend to the mortal realm and find herself a mortal scholar for a brief romance, as described in the storybooks, she was ambushed and knocked unconscious along the way.

When she woke up, she saw the Demon Lord Yuchi Yu, a figure who struck fear throughout the six realms, keeping watch by her side.

Yuchi Yu was tall and straight, but his face was always hidden behind a strange mask.

"That Ji Xunzhu is a block of wood. What's so good about liking him? Why don't you stay in the Demon Palace and become my Demon Queen?"

Yuchi Yu gently stroked the scar on Fu Yu's back. "It wasn't worth getting hurt for Ji Xunzhu. Stay by my side, and I can get you anything you want."

Yuchi Yu pinched Fu Yu's chin to keep her from moving. His voice was bewitching and possessive. "Don't think about running away. Without my orders, no one would dare let you out."

After that,

Yuchi Yu really did keep Fu Yu imprisoned in the Demon Palace. He sealed her magic and chained her hands to the bedpost.

To escape, Fu Yu had no choice but to play along with Yuchi Yu.

During a struggle, Fu Yu knocked the mask from Yuchi Yu's face, revealing a familiar, cold and distant face.

It was the face of Immortal Lord Yuyuan.

Fu Yu: "???"

Fu Yu: "..."

Note: The male lead has a split personality.

Theme: Live well and refuse to slack off